The annual Museum Stores of Richmond Holiday Shoppers Fair will be held this year at the Virginia Historical Society, located at 428 North Boulevard. The Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia is one of 15 area museums participating in the event, which takes place Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Admission is free and open to the public.

Most events are free and are open to the public. For specific locations, times, and details on the events listed below please visit our calendar of events.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Soul of a People
Join us for a noontime talk and book signing for David Taylor’s Soul of a People. His book explores the lives and experiences of a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and offers a glimpse of America at a turning point. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger pictures of their subjects...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
MLK Revealed
A discussion on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with Hampton Sides and Nick Kotz. The discussion will be moderated by Edward L. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond.

Thursday, October 14, 2010
Secretariat’s Meadow
Join us for a talk and signing by co-authors Kate Chenery Tweedy and Leanne Meadows Ladin as they give us the complete story of Secretariat’s birthplace and the family, who raised and raced him. Secretariat’s Meadow: The Land, The Family, The Legend reveals an intimate picture of Meadow Farm from the viewpoint of Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery (Tweedy) and granddaughter of Meadow Stable's founder, Christopher T. Chenery.

Friday, October 15, 2010
From the Heart
Join us for a live literary discussion and seated luncheon with best-selling authors Adriana Trigiani, Jeannette Walls, and Josh Weil. Three of Virginia’s most beloved and highly acclaimed fiction writers discuss their works. Author of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Trigiani wows audiences with her humor. Walls does it with her poignant stories. Weil, whose dark Appalachian tales have brought him critical kudos, is the new voice on the block. Journalist Lisa LaFata Powell will moderate the discussion, which promises to be not only lively but heartfelt.

Friday, October 15, 2010
Virginia Arts & Letters Live
Virginia actors read short stories by Virginia writers, accompanied by Virginia musicians.Pat Carroll is the guest host and this year’s production is directed by Irene Ziegler. This event is co-produced by James River Writers and the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen in association with the READ Center.

Saturday, October 16, 2010
Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
Cardozo Award–winning author Jacqueline Jules will read and discuss her book Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation, which delightfully depicts how the constitution was created. This is a perfect program for elementary school children.

Saturday, October 16, 2010
13th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards
Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani will host this year's fabulous literary event featuring the best writing about Virginia or by Virginia authors. Awards will be given for best works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary lifetime achievement. Other awards include the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the People's Choice Awards, and the Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children's Literature.

Through Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Art of Liberty
This year marks the 65th anniversary of both V-E Day (Victory in Europe, May 8) and V-J Day (Victory over Japan, August 15). To commemorate the occasions and to honor those who fought overseas and on the home front, The Art of Liberty highlights a few of the WWII posters sent to the Library of Virginia as part of the Federal Depository Library program.

Through Wednesday, November 3, 2010The Land We Live In, the Land We Left: Virginia's People
Raising his glass at a July 4th celebration in 1852, a young Irish-American resident of Richmond toasted "the land we live in; not forgetting the land we left." The sentiment reflects the history of more than four centuries of Virginia immigrants, who nurtured the traditions of their homelands even as they participated in the mainstream Virginia economy and culture. Their stories come alive in this exhibition, which explores the lives of immigrants from a wide variety of homelands who settled in every part of the state.

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